Date: 1710, 1714
"Fancy in the mean while carry'd her point: For she was absolute over the Monarch; and had been too little talk'd to by her-self, to bear being reprov'd in Company. The Prince grew sullen; turn'd the Discourse; abhor'd the Profanation offer'd to his Sovereign-Empress; deliver'd up his Thoughts to...
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Date: 1710, 1714
"'Tis easy to bring the Hero's Case home to our-selves; and see, in the ordinary Circumstances of Life, how Love, Ambition, and the gayer Tribe of Fancys (as well as the gloomy and dark Specters of another sort) prevail over our Mind, 'Tis easy to observe how they work on us, when we refuse to be...
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Date: 1710, 1714
"For Nature will not be mock'd. The Prepossession against her can never be very lasting. Her Decrees and Instincts are powerful. She has a strong Party abroad; and as strong a one within our-selves."
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Date: 1739
"To him my heart shall gratefully ascribe / The crown of conquest, his unquestion'd right"
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1739
"Fly from my soul all images of sense"
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Date: 1739
"O name divine! / Be thou engraven on my inmost soul"
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Date: 1739
"My great Redeemer's name--transporting name! / 'Tis graven on my heart"
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Date: 1739
"My great Redeemer's name--transporting name! / 'Tis graven on my heart, 'tis deep imprest, / Immortal is the stamp; nor life, nor death, / Nor hell, with all its pow'rs, shall blot it thence."
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Date: 1739
"Thy hand can trace the characters divine, / And stamp celestial beauty on my soul"
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1739
"To thee; whatever kind impression's rais'd / In any heart for me, let it be thine!"
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